[MyAppleMenu] Monday, Sep 15, 2003

Mon Sep 15 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Sep 15, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Memories Not Sweet As Pie (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,60441,00.html>
An Apple reunion of former employees was dominated by the one person who wasn't there: Steve Jobs.

25 Innovators: Jon Rubinstein (Vincent A. Randazzese, CRN)
<http://www.crn.com/sections/special/innovator/innovator.asp?ArticleID=44456>
Jon Rubinstein's hardware team at Apple Computer has certainly been busy this year, contributing the breakthrough iPod and the Power Mac G5. His latest project is AirPort Extreme, which is ushering in the 802.11g Wi-Fi standard among Apple loyalists.

25 Innovators: Avadis "Avie" Tevanian (Vincent A. Randazzese, CRN)
<http://www.crn.com/sections/special/innovator/innovator.asp?ArticleID=44454>
Over the past few years, Avadis "Avie" Tevanian and his engineering team have blurred the line between fantasy and reality when it comes to what can be accomplished with software.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Pushes iPod In New Print Ads (AdWeek)
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=628&ncid=786&e=3&u=/adweek/20030915/ad_bpiaw/applepushesipodinnewprintads>
On the heels of Apple's claims that its iPod sales quadrupled in the fiscal third quarter and that 10 million songs have been downloaded from its 4-month-old iTunes online store, Omnicom's TBWA\Chiat\Day is breaking a print and outdoor campaign for the portable-music player.

Jobs To Deliver Keynote Speech Tomorrow (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21118>

EyeTV To Support Toast 6 Titanium, European TV (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/15/eyetv/index.php?redirect=1063612816000>

How To Go Legit (Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030922-485739,00.html>
Pay for music online? It used to be square, but the crackdown on pirates is giving legal sites new life.

FCP 4 Optimized For G5 (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6894>
Apple will ship a version of Final Cut Pro 4 that is optimized for Power Mac G5s, the company revealed at European broadcast and media event, IBC.

Getting More From A PC's Spare Time (Joan Oleck, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/technology/circuits/11dist.html?ex=1064203200&en=efb5737c6cbb1067&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA>
Millions of PC users are volunteering their terminals' unused processing power to help analyze data and perform computer simulations for research into an AIDS cure, climate prediction or the mysteries of biological proteins.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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iPod Competition (Bill Howard, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1268108,00.asp>
Will Apple's domination of the personal audio player business be challenged?

Away From The Core (Neil McIntosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1042613,00.html>
Today, the "rest of us" are mostly using Windows, and Apple is no longer concerned with changing that.

The Passing Parade (John Atkinson, Stereophile Magazine)
<http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?922>
Not only is the iPod a great product, but for it to come from Apple rather than, say, Sony, is significant.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Rolling Out Mac OS X In A Lab Environment (Damien Barrett)
<http://www.mrbarrett.com/mt/archives/2003_09_14.html#000768>
Test everything. I mean everything.

Tactile Pro Keyboard (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/tactilepro.shtml>
What you gain, though is potentially a higher degree of accuracy and improved speed, and that will prove to be tremendously important. Just make sure that, if you share an office, you let your coworkers borrow your iPod when you're into some heavy typing.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Crackdown May Send Music Traders Into Software Underground (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/technology/15DARK.html>
Hundreds of software developers are racing to create new systems, or modify existing ones, to let  people continue to swap music -- hidden from the prying eyes of  the Recording Industry Association of America, or from any other investigators.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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The Cheap Way To The Stars -- By Escalator (David Adam, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/spacedocumentary/story/0,2763,1041360,00.html>
If climbing a stairway to heaven sounds like too much hard work, then a conference of 70 scientists and engineers opening in Santa Fe today may offer hope of a more leisurely way into space.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Disillusionment Over The Thames (Sarah Lyall, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/international/europe/15LOND.html>
The illusionist David Blaine's plan to spend 44 days suspended over the Thames is not winning many fans.

Public TV Learns To Do Without (Paul Farhi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10749-2003Sep14.html>
With pledge week donations lagging, corporate contributions flagging and state support drying up, public stations are growing increasingly threadbare.

A Literary Award For Stephen King (David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/books/15BOOK.html>
Under pressure from publishers to shake up its sleepy image, the organization that presents the National Book Awards is planning to give its annual medal for distinguished contribution to American letters to Stephen King.

If Music Be The Foil Of Food, I'll Pass (Bernard Holland, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/arts/music/14HOLL.html>
Americans harbor a terror of silence, and it is not doing them, or music, any good.

The Latest Obscenity Has Seven Letters (Alexander Stille, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/13/arts/13FASC.html>
"The fact that people are using the term fascist to refer to such extremely different phenomena tells you that it has lost most of its descriptive power."

You, Sir, Are A Bore (Eric Gibson, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110004002>
Why can't American politicians come up with imaginative insults?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Vicious Circle (Thomas McGuane, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030922fi_fiction>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore PM Calls For Creativity To Top Rivals (John Burton, John Ridding and Victor Mallet, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479834748>
The lanky figure of Goh Chok Tong, Singapore's prime minister, seems remarkably relaxed for a man grappling with the twin challenges of a political transition and a drive to refashion the city-state's economy.

U.S. Lab Tests Confirm Singapore Man Has SARS (Reuters)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T353819.htm>
U.S. laboratory tests have confirmed that a Singapore medical researcher has the potentially fatal SARS disease, a Health Ministry official said on Sunday.

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